Dr Corinne Silva

Dr Corinne Silva is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London. She studied BA Photography in Europe at Nottingham Trent University and Universitat de Barcelona, and MA Photography at the University of Brighton. She was the recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Scholarship and received her Doctorate from University of the Arts London in 2013.

Corinne Silva's practice is concerned with landscape as a complex interrelation of culture and geography, politics and botany, living beings and inanimate matter. She explores these themes by means of photography, video, walking and mapping practices. The effect of human activity on land, geographic and political borders, migration and ecology are among the issues that are investigated in Silva’s works. The artist explores these connections through a direct and immediate engagement with the territories she visits, on journeys through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

For Silva, questions of landscape and power also concern plant life. From her early works such as Róisín Bán (2006) to recent projects such as Wounded (2014) and Gardening the Suburbs (2013), as well as an ongoing collaboration with Eva Sajovic, resulting in residency and exhibition Plant /Life (2017), Silva examined how plants and gardens participate in the ideological conquest of territories.

While Silva’s practice is informed by historic precedents in landscape photography, she seeks a visual language that privileges fragmentation rather than an all-encompassing overview, responding to landscape in an embodied and subjective manner, thereby rejecting an objective point of view. This creates new narrative possibilities that disrupt traditional modes of the visualisation of the landscape.

She was artist-in-residence at Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan (2016 and 2017); Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Centro Negra, Murcia, Spain (2015); Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania, (2014); and A.M. Qattan Foundation Ramallah, (2013 and 2014). In 2012 she was a nominee of the FOAM Paul Huf Award and the Mac First Book Award finalist. In 2014 she received a Triangle International Fellowship.

Dr Corinne Silva

Dr Corinne Silva is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London. She studied BA Photography in Europe at Nottingham Trent University and Universitat de Barcelona, and MA Photography at the University of Brighton. She was the recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Scholarship and received her Doctorate from University of the Arts London in 2013.

Corinne Silva's practice is concerned with landscape as a complex interrelation of culture and geography, politics and botany, living beings and inanimate matter. She explores these themes by means of photography, video, walking and mapping practices. The effect of human activity on land, geographic and political borders, migration and ecology are among the issues that are investigated in Silva’s works. The artist explores these connections through a direct and immediate engagement with the territories she visits, on journeys through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

For Silva, questions of landscape and power also concern plant life. From her early works such as Róisín Bán (2006) to recent projects such as Wounded (2014) and Gardening the Suburbs (2013), as well as an ongoing collaboration with Eva Sajovic, resulting in residency and exhibition Plant /Life (2017), Silva examined how plants and gardens participate in the ideological conquest of territories.

While Silva’s practice is informed by historic precedents in landscape photography, she seeks a visual language that privileges fragmentation rather than an all-encompassing overview, responding to landscape in an embodied and subjective manner, thereby rejecting an objective point of view. This creates new narrative possibilities that disrupt traditional modes of the visualisation of the landscape.

She was artist-in-residence at Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan (2016 and 2017); Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Centro Negra, Murcia, Spain (2015); Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania, (2014); and A.M. Qattan Foundation Ramallah, (2013 and 2014). In 2012 she was a nominee of the FOAM Paul Huf Award and the Mac First Book Award finalist. In 2014 she received a Triangle International Fellowship.